Apache Spark is arguably the hottest big data technology of the year — or maybe ever. More than 1000 enthusiasts have committed code to the open source project and almost every big data provider has ...

Recently the TABB Group, a consultancy focused exclusively on capital markets, published a report on Real-Time Big Data Analytics in Financial Services. That, in itself, is a tell-tale sign: big data ...

Apache Spark brings high-speed, in-memory analytics to Hadoop clusters, crunching large-scale data sets in minutes instead of hours Apache Spark got its start in 2009 at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab as a way ...

In this video from the Disruptive Technologies session at the 2015 HPC User Forum, Joseph George from HP presents: Challenging Analytics Architectures. “This paper describes the HP Big Data Reference ...